Dictate in any app · Design
Figma comments are where design feedback lives, and vague feedback is a typing problem. Typally puts your words into Figma the moment you release the key, in whichever field you left the cursor.
Written by the team behind Typally. Figma's own features are described as accurately as we can — check them yourself before switching anything.None. Comments, text layers and descriptions are typed.
'Make this bigger' is what gets typed. What the reviewer meant — why it competes with the headline, what the user is trying to do at that moment — takes a paragraph, so it never gets written and the designer guesses.
In practice people use it for: Comments on a frame, component descriptions, handoff notes, and the rationale behind a design decision.
Because Typally types at the system level rather than plugging into Figma, setup is the same everywhere:
Windows or macOS build, signed in once.
Make sure Figma has the cursor in the intended field; that is the only thing that decides where words appear.
Say the whole thought, then let go. No time limit.
Pressing T in Figma starts a text layer. Make sure the comment box has focus, or dictated words become type on the canvas.
Typally types into Figma's comment box, so feedback can explain why rather than just what. 'Make it bigger' costs three revisions; the spoken sentence about what it competes with costs one. Make sure the comment field has focus first — pressing T in Figma starts a text layer instead.
A product manager reviewing a checkout screen leaves one spoken comment of forty words instead of 'this feels off'. The designer changes the right thing on the first attempt, which saves two rounds.
Dictate the reason, not the instruction. 'Make it bigger' costs three revisions; the sentence explaining why costs one.
Pressing T in Figma starts a text layer. Make sure the comment box has focus, or dictated words become type on the canvas.
No. Comments are typed text.
Yes, though design copy is usually short. Comments are where dictation pays off.
Yes — stickies and comments are ordinary text fields.
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